There are just no words
Dec. 28th, 2004 02:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misscamI guess you are all aware of the great tragedy caused by an earthquake off Sumatra by now. Tsunamis have crushed communities and swept people out to sea in several countries. It may yet be the greatest ntural disaster in modern times. No one quite know how bad it is yet, due to the utter chaos and remote areas affected.
Norway's lost 13 and we got hundreds missing. Small number compared to the utter devestation of the countries directly affected, but a large number for tiny us, who very rarely lose people in large number in disasters. This may be the worst we've ever had in decades. And we have a large number of Sri Lankan Tamils living in our country and many of them have lost family. I can almost feel their pain in my own heart, still struggling with my own recent loss. So much loss, so much pain, and yet the sun will rise in the morning over the still grave of the ocean.
This does remind how much the Earth is our cradle, our mother, our feeder - and our killer. There is no mercy in it. But then, we haven't shown the Earth much mercy at times either. And life seems ever fragile in the great roar of the sea.
And why does it always take such great loss of life for us to realise this and come together?
Norway's lost 13 and we got hundreds missing. Small number compared to the utter devestation of the countries directly affected, but a large number for tiny us, who very rarely lose people in large number in disasters. This may be the worst we've ever had in decades. And we have a large number of Sri Lankan Tamils living in our country and many of them have lost family. I can almost feel their pain in my own heart, still struggling with my own recent loss. So much loss, so much pain, and yet the sun will rise in the morning over the still grave of the ocean.
This does remind how much the Earth is our cradle, our mother, our feeder - and our killer. There is no mercy in it. But then, we haven't shown the Earth much mercy at times either. And life seems ever fragile in the great roar of the sea.
And why does it always take such great loss of life for us to realise this and come together?
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Date: 2004-12-28 02:20 pm (UTC)She's fine. The phones are cut off, that's all.